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If you had a 16 kB memory card (a.k.a "Language Card") you could overlay the ROM memory with RAM, and load the Integer Basic ROM overe the AppleSoft Basic ROM.

AppleSoft did "everything" with floating-point variables, like loops indexing into arrays. It's amazing that programs ran at usable speeds on a 1 Mhz machine.



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